CH. iv] Old and New Methods 75 



that our modern triumph is no modern invention. Egypt 

 and Mesopotamia were irrigated long before our civihsa- 

 tion appeared; the farming methods of the Syrian 

 peasant handed down by long tradition contain in them 

 all the principles of our modern dry farming-;!. 



1 "Dry farming in Syria," J. Agric. West Australia, 1908, xvi, 206. 



